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Our state has been the heartland of the civil rights movement since its inception. We have had dark and bright brushes with civil rights history from Vivian Malone and James Hood bravely standing up to then-Alabama Governor George Wallace while he made his iniquitous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” to Autherine Lucy’s 1956 graduation from the University of Alabama.
The law students at the University of Alabama no longer stand for injustice. History continues to unfold from the school’s back windows. And this journal is one small part in our participation.
Starting from just a small seed, students nurtured a proposal and won approval from the law faculty in late 2008. Their idea? The Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review – a specialized law journal to track developments in the vital and interconnected areas of civil rights and civil liberties. In the field of civil rights, we survey and follow the drive for equality as the specter of discrimination – be it along racial, ethnic, religious or other lines which we use to divide one another – still lurks in many corners of everyday life. Wallace may have chosen the University as the site to make his stand over 45 years ago, but today, The University of Alabama is home to something breathtakingly different: a new vanguard for the rights and freedoms of all Americans.